Japanese photographer

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 128 pp., 122 color ills., text language: ? Ltd. to only 600 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 19 x 1,5 cm., 140 pp., 60 b/w and colour ills., bilingual texts: English / French

In 'The Screw', Akihito YOSHIDA shows people who make the 'screws' of ships in small workshop in Bangladesh. They work together to create a cold, hard metal by pouring molten red liquid, like magma, into the pitch-black ground, covered with iron sand.

The out-of-print photographic volume of the Teikai book trilogy by Daisuke YOKOTA, 'Wandering at Midnight' (after 'Linger' and before 'Immerse'), depicts the lonely, midnight drift through the outskirts of a city, human obsession and undreamed dreams.

The out-of-print volume 'Vertigo' by Daisuke YOKOTA is a kind of evolutionary sequel to 'Back Yard'. It contains close-ups as well as bird's-eye views of files. It refers to and clarifies the editing methods used by making the viewer aware of the sequence

Haunting, distorted and otherworldly images in the out-of-print volume 'Site/Cloud' epitomizes the approach of Daisuke YOKOTA to pushing the development process & possibilities of analog image making, introducing imperfections and visual noise into them.

For his out-of-print book 'Outskirts', Daisuke YOKOTA explores the boundaries between digital & analog photography. He uses color images from the outskirts of Tokyo - pictures of cars, trees & buildings - whose colors he then reverses into the monochrome.

The out-of-print volume 'Matter / Burn Out' by Daisuke YOKOTA is a documentation of the exhibition of the same name in Xiamen, which was burned after its completion. This was documented, with the data processed, manipulated and revived to create this book

Out-of-print 'Immerse' by Daisuke YOKOTA closes his Teikai trilogy. Dream-like b/w images meet abstract colour works, mixed with nudes. He brings fragments together to showcase the way he has developed his artistic approach since his first TEIKAI volume.

Out-of-print photo book 'Corpus' by Daisuke YOKOTA consists of around forty grainy nude photographs. The b/w images show an indefinable tangle of human limbs and torsos in the confines of a nondescript bedroom - made tangible in an uncanny yet sensual way

Daisuke YOKOTA Conersation with Taisuke Koyama, Mayumi Hosokura, Kenta Cobayashi, Takashi Kawashima as well as with Takaaki Akaishi in Japanese and English.

The images in 'Berlin' by Daisuke YOKOTA exhibit his signature experimental processing techniques whilst also demonstrating unconventional shooting methods like re-appropriating thermographic & infrared cameras and rendering the images onto analog film.

Pb., 20 x 29 cm., 50 pp., 26 b/w ills., no text, Ltd. to 700 copies

'Yashi no mi' by Miho YOKOCHI is a photo report about her travels to coastal cities in Japan - in the tradition of Tamiko NISHIMURA, who traveled to the Tohoku, Hokuriku, Kanto, Kansai and Chugoku in the 1970s and published her series as a photo book, too

2 x HC, 23 x 30 x 6 cm., o.pp., each of both titles is ltd. to 100 signed & numbered copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 30 x 6 cm., o.pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to self made 200 copies

The out-of-print, large-format photo volume is the first monograph on the photographic work by Japanese architect and photographer Iwao YAMAWAKI and illustrates the fascinating visual experiments of this very talented Bauhaus-era photographer.

2nd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 98 pp., color ills.,

Yusuke YAMATANI took the b/w photographs during his honeymoon with his wife Emi in Japan. The title comes from the 1950s rock'n'roll song 'Rama Lama Ding Dong'. Connoisseurs of Japanese photography might think of Nobuyoshi ARAKI's 'Sentimental Journey'.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26,5 x 2 cm., 95 pp. +7 foldout pp., color ills., small bilingual texts: English / Japanese

For 'Ground', Yusuke YAMATANI photographed the floor of a music hall, printed out this life-size image and laid it back on the same floors before a concert began. The worn surface, stained by alcohol & sweat, is another form of photographic documentation.

At the center of 'Doors' is the documentation of photographer Yusuke YAMATANI's European tour, a self-portrait project that combines photography with drum performance. In addition to the performances, snapshots, landscapes und encounters are recorded.

HC, 23 x 27 cm., 64 pp., 40 b/w ills., English / Japanese, Ltd. to 500 copies

'Small Things in Silence' offers a perspective on 20 years of the career Masao YAMAMOTO and contains images from each of his major projects - 'Box of Ku', 'Nakazora', 'Kawa' and 'Shizuka' - as well as images from some of his original photo installations.

This photo book, 'Bonsai', is a very beautiful and elaborately designed artist's book, whose slipcase is covered with silky Japan paper. By manipulating the backgrounds & perspectives the series of the Japanese Masao YAMAMOTO gets a surrealistic touch.

Japanese bound pb. with dust jacket, 15 x 21 x 0,5 cm., 32 pp., color ills., bilingual (only informations): bilinguale text: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 500 numered copies

HC with dustjacket, 26 x 26 cm., 60 pp., 32 b/w ills., Japanese/English

'Gift' is the subtle story of a friendship with images full of poetry. American Terri WEIFENBACH and Japanese Rinko KAWAUCHI are two internationally recognized photographers who have been corresponding across continents and exchanging photos since 2011.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 1 cm., 48 pp., 38 b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English, 187 gr., Ltd. ed. to 500 copies

In 'Stakeout Diary', Yukichi WATABE follows the investigation of a murder that occurred in 1958. Parts of the series already appeared that time in a magazine, others in the book 'A Criminal Investigation'. The photos were new selected for this publication

In out-of-print photo volume 'A Criminal Investigation', Yukichi WATABE documents investigations into a gruesome murder. The images unfold in the style of 'film noir' and involve the viewer. Image by image, the mystery engulfs the one who has to solve it.

How do digital photography & Photoshop influence architectural representation? This compendium 'Fiction & Fabrication' contains current architectural photographs - from fictional constructs to real buildings, some of which seem more fantastic than fiction

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 cm., 144 pp., color ills., with biographical notes, text language: English, Ltd. to only 250 copies

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 23 x 27,5 cm., 288 S., 318 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 26 x 2 cm., 239 pp., highly color & b/w illustrated, text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 26 cm., 464 pp., 600 b/w & color ills.,

Linen bound HC in slipcase (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 25 cm., 80 pp., 39 ills., jap./english. Ltd. ed. to 1,000 cps.

Linen bound HC in slipcase (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., 40 ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English. Ltd. to 1,000 copies

This photo book, 'Ie no kaze' (The Winds of Home) by Japanese Rei USHIGAKI, deals with the universal search to understand what one's roots are. It functions as a conversation with a place that is foreign and at the same time the origin of one's own roots.

This book is a thoughtful guide for photographers through today’s complex landscape of images, with the ultimate goal of understanding how to make images that matter: Understanding Photographs, Making Photographs, and Moving in Pursuit of Unique.

The xtremely rare photo volume 'Underground Generation' contains works by Daido MORIYAMA, Eikoh HOSOE, Jun MORINAGA, Masahisa FUKASE, Kishin SHINOYAMA and Kenji ISHIGURO who were in 1968 out and about with their cameras. in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo.

Open spine binded HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 33 x 2 cm., 152 pp., 69 color ills., bilingual text: English / Japanese, Ltd. to 300 copies

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 27 cm., 100 pp., 58 color ills., English

The monograph 'Small Biography' features photographs by Shoji UEDA from the 1930s to the 1990s, originally published in Camera Mainichi magazine between 1974 and 1985. The limited edition of 1000 copies was numbered with an ink stamp on the colophon page.

This photo book, 'Shoji Ueda', which has been out of print for a long time, is the first monograph on the renowned Japanese photographer. The trilingual edition contains a large number of previously unpublished photographs in black and white as well as in

Boxed pb., 21 x 23 cm., o.pp., color ills., text language: English

The volume 'Picture of My Life' by Junpei UEDA is the result of workshop in Tokyo, where he created 21 copies. This edition is as close as possible to the original edition, but in a larger print run of 500 copies to make it available to a larger audience.

'Son of a bit' by Yasuhiko UCHIHARA show pictures from his travels through Tokyo & Bangkok as a field of rotting apples or bustling activity found on a street, all captured in full-page vibrant colour and with a casual eye for order, chaos, life and death

The subject in 'Mama & Love' by Hideka TONOMURA is her own mother: her infidelity and her affair. Her intense, intimate visual exploration of her immediate family and her own feelings may not be easy to look at, but it is an unforgettable experience.